{"id":14986,"date":"2020-02-26T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/alpine-ecosystems-at-risk-as-tahr-population-booms-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:20:49","slug":"alpine-ecosystems-at-risk-as-tahr-population-booms-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14986","title":{"rendered":"Alpine ecosystems at risk as tahr population booms in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan tahr numbers reach 35,000 despite controversial culling aimed at limiting them to 10,000<\/p>\n<p>A non-native goat-like animal is destroying New Zealand\u2019s fragile alpine regions, and government culling has been unable to keep up with its population booms.<\/p>\n<p>The Himalayan tahr was introduced to New Zealand in 1904 as hunting game for sports shooters, and has thrived in the rugged, alpine environment of the South Island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/alpine-ecosystems-at-risk-as-tahr-population-booms-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan tahr numbers reach 35,000 despite controversial culling aimed at limiting them to 10,000A non-native goat-like animal is destroying New Zealand\u2019s fragile alpine regions, and government culling has been unable to keep up with its population bo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,456,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-conservation","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14988,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions\/14988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}